Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 03:37:44 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 206355] Installer interferes with manual network setup, preventing netinstall from succeeding Message-ID: <bug-206355-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D206355 Bug ID: 206355 Summary: Installer interferes with manual network setup, preventing netinstall from succeeding Product: Base System Version: 10.2-RELEASE Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Many People Priority: --- Component: bin Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: venture37@geeklan.co.uk It appears that the installer makes changes to configuration which result in network installation failing, either the loss of resolv.conf which means the hostnames of mirrors cannot be resolved or reseting the routing table, caus= ing previously setup routes to be lost. My scenario is trying to provision virtual machines in an environment where= the allocated IP addresses are also allocated specific MAC addresses. The alloc= ated IP addresses are in a different subnet to the IP address of the host, yet I= SP expects the use of the same gateway as the host. This means that you have to setup the routing table manually. So I boot the guest. At the "Welcome to FreeBSD" menu I choose shell & configure the network, also creating a resolv.conf. Everything works, I confirm I can connect to a host on the out= side via TCP & ping some other hosts. Exit & choose install Configure keymap, hostname, distribution select, as I have a minimal ISO, I= 'm told "No installation files were found on the boot volume" and I move onto = the "Network Configuration" section. Select interface say no to configuring IPv4 or IPv6 & proceed with install = as normal, fetching dist files will fail. When the install has failed, exit & drop back to shell. netstart -rn will show that routing table is as you configured it but /etc/resolv.conf has been overwritten by a symlink which nolonger exists # ls -l /etc/resolv.conf=20 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 31 Aug 12 15:45 /etc/resolv.conf -> /tmp/bsdinstall_etc/resolv.conf If you restart the install & at the "Network Configuration" section. you say yes to configuring IPV4 and no to using DHCP. You'll be presented with the details you entered manually (ip adress, mask, gw). proceeding through the install will result in again failing to fetch dist files. Dropping to the s= hell & running netstat you'll find that your changes to the routing table have b= een lost. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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